Year Food Matters

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs (5)
  2. 4. A fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter (7)
  3. 8. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)
  4. 11. The quantity of something that is created (5)
  5. 13. A chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition (12)
  6. 14. Any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings (plural) (8)
  7. 15. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism (plural) (8)

Down

  1. 2. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  2. 3. A device that produces electricity (7)
  3. 5. A chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure (plural) (11)
  4. 6. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (7)
  5. 7. A person who operates a farm (6)
  6. 8. That which is pleasing or valuable or useful (8)
  7. 9. A light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group (9)
  8. 10. A common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas (8)
  9. 12. The yield from plants in a single growing season (plural) (5)